The Wildhearts – Fishing for Luckies

Round Records, 1996 Pretty much every circumstance surrounding this album suggests that it shouldn’t be much cop: released on the bands own Round Records label in late 1996 after they acrimoniously split from East/West, I bought it as a cut out for a fiver back when Way Ahead was still a music shop. It’s technicallyContinue reading “The Wildhearts – Fishing for Luckies”

Thirty-six

Amon Tobin – Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (Ninja Tune) I love Amon Tobin. He’s cool, his album art is always excellent, and he releases consistently brilliant albums. It’s fair to say he’s one of my favourite musicians around at the moment. His last album ‘proper’ (though this does technically count) was 2002’s Out From OutContinue reading “Thirty-six”

Forty-four

Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh (Playlouder) A debut album from a very potentially exciting new indie band, this is both defined and hamstrung by a love of My Bloody Valentine. Granted, loving MBV is never really a problem, but this band’s thrall of the Creation wonders is never really developed into an identity for themselves.Continue reading “Forty-four”

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